Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.